Patrick Cleburne

Patrick Cleburne (16 March 1828-30 November 1864) was a Major-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formerly a Corporal in the British Army, he was called the "Stonewall of the West" for his excellence at military tactics. He was killed in the Battle of Franklin.

Biography
Cleburne was born in the town of Ovens in Ireland's County Cork to an Anglo-Irish family and in 1846 attempted to become a medician at the Trinity College of Medicine. He failed the entry test and joined the 41st Regiment of Foot in the British Army, rising to the rank of Corporal. In 1849 he bought a discharge and emigrated to the United States with two brothers and a sister to Arkansas.

By 1860, Cleburne was a natural citizen and a practicing lawyer who was very popular with residents; he was wounded in a debate in 1856 and killed one of his attackers. He did not care about slavery, but in 1861 during the American Civil War, he remained loyal to the southerners who had taken him in as one of their people and had been brothers to him. In March 1862 he was made a Brigadier General and suffered a face wound at the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky. In December he was made a Major General, and fought in the major campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, earning the nickname "Stonewall of the West".

When the war turned against the Confederate States in 1864, he proposed the liberation of the slaves, comparing their emancipation's results to the Spartan liberation of slaves and the resulting victory in the Greco-Persian Wars and the liberation of Ottoman slaves in the Battle of Lepanto. In the Battle of Franklin in later 1864, he was a general under John Bell Hood, and led a charge. His horse was shot from under him and he fought on foot behind Union lines, and was shot in the heart. When his men found his body, it had been looted of everything of value